L E T T E R from Jac – Exploring Contemplative Thinking
I’ve come back across from pottering through some of our boxes The New Farmers Almanac, by Greenhorns, a completely delightful […]
Consciousness
L E T T E R from Jac – Opening Intuition
Have you ever noticed that when your intuition speaks to you, it’s a physical feeling. It’s like a channeling, a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Not Taking Anything For Granted
I think the last few months has taught us not to take as much as we may have previously for […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Always A Work In Progress
Technically we are all a finite story, we have a beginning, a middle and an end. The paradox is that […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Expanding Creativity
What blocks are in the way of your creativity right now? What is stopping you from expressing yourself creatively on a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Complexity of Being Human
Being a human is a very complex thing. We are either moving from our heart, acknowledging our privilege, sharing our […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Dusting Ourselves Right Off
Anais Nin says, “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We […]
L E T T E R from Jac – True Compassion
People that have truly encountered the darkness of their own soul, I enjoy a lot. There is a rawness, an […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Simplicity of The Heart
Krishnamurti speaks, ‘Simplicity of the heart is of far greater importance and significance than simplicity of possessions. To renounce comfort, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Ego
From the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali‘Drg darshana shaktyor ekatma tevasmita’ The ego believes we are our thoughts and compels one to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Not Running From Pain
Tonglen is a Buddhist practice of working with suffering – ours, and everyone else’s at every opportunity. It is a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What We Think
You know the saying, ‘you are what you eat’, well we are also ‘we are what we think’. So today, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Daily Commitments
We can all talk a LOT about what we want to be doing, big plans, little follow through. Paring it […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Same, Same But Different
I love the fact that I change. Some days may be more obvious than others and some days may seem […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Working with Uncertainty
Sticking with yesterday’s theme, I wanted to touch more on panic. I tend to panic as my standard go to. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Need To Know
Our need to know all the time comes from our thinking mind, and robs us of the present moment. It’s not […]
L E T T E R from Jac – On Resistance and Flow – Part 2
So back to this idea of the Reward System. (you can read the previous Letter on Resistance and Flow in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – On Resistance and Flow – Part 1
What I have learnt about myself is that I sort of held on to some old Catholic beliefs that it […]
L E T T E R from Jo – From The Heart
Whenever I experience a moment that connects me to my heart, I want to press pause and bathe in all […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Spirituality
Sri M is one of my favourite teachers, for he combines the richest of spiritual knowledge, with practical modern living. I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Follow Truth
It’s so tempting to want to look to others to figure out what to do. I have always admired Krishnamurti’s teachings, […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Note To Self
I know that change is happening always, it’s the only constant. I believe this, I feel it to be true […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Eliminating the non-essential
‘Misogi’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘eliminating the non essential’. Editing out what’s not important or relevant anymore. In the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Resistance
On Friday I hosted our live online The DOJO, 90 minute session on Resistance and Surrender, and we explored many verses of the Tao […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Planet Sabbatical
Yesterday Arran and I bumped into a friend Dan, who owns a cafe here in Byron with his wife, and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What’s None Of My Business
In truth, this has been a really vulnerable time for me, I’ve shared more than before, heart of my sleeve, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Sweet Joys
The feeling of getting out of government quarantine was truly something else. I have truly realised how relative time is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Learning’s From A Pandemic Part 4
Hands up who wants resilience? Hands up who also would prefer to not do the dirty work to get it? Resilience […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Growing Pains
We’ve all seen the illustration, the circle of comfort and the arrow of growth well outside and it’s likely we […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Learning’s From A Pandemic Part 3
I have found that trusting the universe is an easier task when things are ‘going my way’. I delight in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Learning’s From A Pandemic Part 2
We have been through some stuff in our lives, Arran and I. For some it would mount up a life […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Learning’s From A Pandemic Part 1
I thought I would share some of the beauty in what I am learning personally, and what I am learning […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Spiritual Hurricane Lamp
Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes in her beautiful book Gift From the Sea, “I want in fact – to borrow from […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Alright, Let’s Get Curious
It’s interesting, I love to learn. I love the possibilities, the fresh thinking that stretch the boundaries of my mind […]
L E T T E R from Jac – To Despair Or Not Despair
The Mother, Aurobindo’s teaching partner teaches beautifully on despair and it has been something I have really learnt into. Her […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Surrender
In a 1979 lecture by Ram Dass he says, ‘Just look at your life and think how many preferences you […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Back to Love
When I am feeling any of those uncomfortable emotions – anger, frustration, sadness I can be spiky, hard, tight, stuck […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Redefining Luxury
One of our students forwarded this Letter that I wrote back in December of last year and I thought that […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The True Teachers
We all have teachers in our lives, that have helped us, taught us. It’s what I do for my living, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Can You See The Moon?
Trauma is such an interesting experience, the brain seeming to be sliced into multiple parts. You can go through the […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Wield Your Power!
Yes, we have power, always. Never forget this, ever. I do. Often and I need reminding again, often. I temporarily […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Getting On With It
I work one on one with a lot of people around the world, usually immensely successful people locked into a […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Advantage in the Reality of What Is
I was in a situation recently where someone didn’t like what was being shared and even though there was compelling […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Inspiration for Success
Isn’t it an amazing time? In the thick of all the awfulness – all the paradigms and societal beliefs we […]
L E T T E R from Jac – All The Dreams
There is a Jewish story, that is also told in many traditions with varying tones. The essence of it is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Heart At Peace
Some questions for you to ponder… What is your source? What will you return to? What will you be tolerant […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Truth of Resilience and Innovation
This situation at the moment is really dismantling a lot isn’t it. Us as people, our friends, our family, our […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Happens Today Is A Choice
At the moment I can feel myself firming up, more grounded every day. Becoming stronger, more resilient, and I can […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Embracing The Gaps
I woke up yesterday, and for a brief moment, forgot all that had been happening. I stretched, I listened to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Choice We Get To Make
We can truly lean into the current situation of the pandemic as a way to discover the truth of ourselves. We might […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Suffering Is Optional
I do love this quote by Murakami. A man who also wakes at 4.30am every day and writes furiously until […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Panicking
When everyone around us is either panicking, or dismissing heavily everyone that is panicking, it’s hard to stay on solid […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Create, Maintain, Edit is Our Process
Nature is all about evolving, moving forward, growing and changing. These movements can happen through creation or they can happen […]
Thought Of The Week – Mind Nutrition
Consider that what you eat is also what you are. Consider this for your mind. What you consume mentally makes […]
L E T T E R from Jo – How We Act is the Most Important Thing
Once upon a time, I was all about collecting knowledge, being smart, knowing things, knowing lots of different things, more […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Workings of Consciousness
Moving into higher states of consciousness means that we can have deeper relationships, are calmer and centered, are less involved […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Thinking Patterns and the Power of Choice
Here are some examples of common low grade thinking patterns that you might recognise; “God, bad things always seem to […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Deserve it, Expect it, Claim it!
How easy is it for you to ask for what you really want? How easy is it for you to […]
L E T T E R from Jo – You Are Always Worth It
Ultimately we all want to feel connected and loved and sometimes in our pursuit of these very things, we get […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows
Years back, I had to really ask myself why the less important things and people in my life are getting […]
L E T T E R from Jo – We Have The Power
We don’t get to choose the emotions we feel but we are in charge of the responses we have to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Working With Emptiness
‘We join spokes together in a wheel,but it is the centre holethat makes the wagon move. We shape clay into […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Are you Ready to Shift your Energy Throughout January?
In 10 days time with hundreds of people from all over the world, we launch into the January 2020 High […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Open Up
I fully subscribe to the philosophy that the quality of your mind determines the quality of your life. It is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Honeyed Reinstating Of Ones Soul
Being a big fan of Nick Cave and his immensely creative processes, as well as his raw vulnerability and sharing […]
L E T T E R from Jac – BOOM and it’s 2020!!!
Welcome to 2020, what a freaking amazing day it is! Whatever happened until the very moment you read this, is […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Checking In With Your Life
This might be a bit harsh, Seth, but I get the idea. Holidays are great circuit breakers to check in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Gifts Not Under The Tree
Have you ever received a present and thought, ‘weird, and certainly not what I want’ yet it’s gone onto be […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Happy Day To You From Us
Christmas is a funny time, isn’t it? Sometimes it’s joy-filled and fun. Other years it’s a time to get together […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Getting on with the Living and the Loving
I want us all to ponder, how often has holding onto my resentments paid off? How many moments have I […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Do Your Right Thing
I don’t know if this is a sign of aging but every year that passes feels faster and faster. This […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Giving Freely That Which Counts
Our daughter had a huge upset of late within her football team (soccer for all the Australians) that was a […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Change Can Be A Superpower
Over the last few weeks, I have been in the thick of an extraordinary amount of difficult change, not just […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Just Being Trees
This quote in full by Ram Dass is, “When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Choose Fun
When did life get so serious? When did we take ourselves so seriously? One of my core values and something […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Working With An Angry Person
Yesterday, I wrote about a very recent incident where I dealt with someone who was incredibly difficult, and very angry, in […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Unchanging Truth
When we meditate, we begin to understand and become aware of the layers of ideas and thoughts we have about […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Compassion That Big
Compassion is normally an outward energy isn’t it, we focus our energy in trying to ‘be’ compassionate to others. Which […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Deepest Relationship
The longest-standing relationship we will ever have, the most intimate, the most defining, is the one we have with ourselves. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Efficiency Of Social Relationships
Efficiency is where anything immediately irrelevant is trimmed out. Keywords around efficiency are force, computation, intelligence, knowledge. The problem with […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Open All Hours
Life is funny – when things are going well – and yes I hate to say it “according to plan” […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The 4% Rule
I have had the pleasure of meeting many talented people in my life, as well as many deeply conscious spiritual […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Complete from the Hermitage and Back Into The World
My silent retreat is now complete. In all honesty, it was one of the most incredible experiences I have had, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Giving Up All That’s Not Ours
This week whilst we appear to be crushing on the words of David Whyte, let me share one of my […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Stay In The Long Game
Thousands of years back there was a tall, verdant tree at a royal court in a faraway land. The tree […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Expanding Together By Doing
This is my debrief from the recent High Vibe Challenge. If you’re not aware of this challenge – there was […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Which Wolf Will You Feed
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – True Self
One of the key issues I see when mentoring thought leaders is that there is usually a deep underlying system […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Memory, The Veil To Truth
Our memories fail us all the time. Layer in that we miss things all the time also. We have deep attention […]